Jail sentence for Lindsey Lohan highlights risks of Massachusetts probation violations
Actress Lindsay Lohan was ordered to jail this week for violating probation and failure to undergo alcohol counseling, the New York Post reported.
A Massachusetts OUI charge carries the threat of significant penalties, including jail time, mandatory counseling, probation, fines and court costs. Sometimes defendants find themselves in additional trouble for failing to properly comply with the terms of probation.
Drunk driving charges frequently involve motorists with little or no experience with the criminal justice system. An experienced Boston OUI lawyer can make sure you understand what you need to do to remain in compliance and will have the knowledge and experience necessary to defend you if you are ever brought to the court for a probation violation hearing, sometimes referred to as a probation surrender hearing in Massachusetts.
In Lohan's case, the L.A. judge sent her to jail for 90 days for failure to attend educational classes ordered as part of her plea agreement to two DUI arrests in 2007. Lohan had fallen behind in class attendance and had been ordered in December to begin attending once a week. Instead, she missed seven weeks of classes and a court date in May when she was at the Cannes Film Festival and said she lost her passport.
The actress was ordered to report to jail on July 20. Jail personnel said she would likely serve about 25 percent of her sentence, or about 25 days behind bars. Lohan was sentenced to 30 days for reckless driving, and 30 days for two separate DUI arrests that came in May and July of last year.
The judge also ordered Lohan to enter an inpatient substance abuse treatment program within two days of her release. Prosecutors were not allowed to introduce evidence that Lohan's alcohol monitoring bracelet indicated she had consumed alcohol on June 7, the night of the MTV Movie Awards.
It is the latest is a series of legal problems for the actress, who had her probation revoked in May after missing a hearing stemming from a three-year-old drug and alcohol case.